“We are human beings who live here,” Silvia Hernández says emphatically. She is speaking of Los Angeles’s notorious Skid Row, though she no longer lives there herself. Hernández doesn’t look back fondly on…
Authorities have released numbers on the weeklong clean-up effort in Skid Row from last month. This year, the Los Angeles City Council devoted an extra $2.2 million to the effort, spearheaded by District…
Los Angeles city and county workers launched a major effort Wednesday to clean up skid row and offer medical, mental health and social services to help an estimated 1,700 homeless people get off…
Los Angeles’s Skid Row is home to an increasingly older population of women, many of whom have experienced domestic and sexual abuse, according to a new report. The “Downtown Women’s Needs Assessment” found more…
East Los Angeles residents on Tuesday gave L.A. police chief Charlie Beck a mixed bag of unfavorable and tepid reviews of his last five years as head of the LAPD at a community…
Skid Row in downtown L.A. will get additional clean up crews and trash cans thanks to $3.7 million approved Tuesday by the City Council. The funding is part of Operation Healthy Streets, which…
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver addressed the press Saturday evening about the racist remarks allegedly made by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Silver said that he was “not prepared yet to discuss any…
A public relations campaign on Twitter started by the New York Police Department, #myNYPD, migrated west to Los Angeles this week. The campaign was intended to highlight the positive relationship between New Yorkers…
An ambitious redevelopment project in Watts has locals concerned about the environment. The billion dollar project by the L.A. city housing authority would transform the Jordan Downs housing project into an urban village. The…
Downtown business owners asked the City Council Tuesday to step in and “do something” about what they called an assault on years of improvements in the district. Specifically, speakers accused Occupy L.A. and…
A new study highlights the potential negative impacts of AEG’s proposed football stadium for downtown Los Angeles. Human Impact Partners conducted the study, with the support of a coalition that includes the Los…
Twenty groups that offered comments on the draft environmental impact report for Farmers Field have used their prerogative under SB 292 to request mediation with the city and with AEG about it. That…